Pond Surveillance
by Parker Smith, Class of 2024 Doodling during class is more or less a tradition for me. I taught myself to draw in 4th grade social studies and haven’t stopped since. In this one (completed during an online lecture), I started with the fish in the middle and then worked outward, imagining that I was…
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Playlists to Read to
by Thanvi Dola, Prose Staff Everyone reads differently. Maybe you’re the type to work through a book for weeks, chewing on each word and turn of phrase ad nauseum. Or perhaps you like to inhale your reads, turning pages until the sun rises over their edges. Maybe you prefer reading Stephen King on a stormy…
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Collage Collection
by Asya Azkin, Class of 2022 I create handmade collages using recycled magazines, most of them from the 60s and 70s. I have always been fascinated with the color schemes and photography styles of that era, as well as sustainability in general, so I combine these two concepts to create upcycled collages.
Poetry & My Grandfather
by Annie Mahaffey, Prose Staff My grandfather and I love to talk about poetry. When I was growing up, we didn’t always have much common ground to converse about. He was and is very kind, and interested in my school activities, and how my hometown football team was doing, but that was about the extent…
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A Body
by Alexa White, class of 2023
Three Poems on Being in Love
by Michael Bruebach, Poetry Staff I If you are early to rise, youmay witness the peak of small crested smile with daybreak;pillows frame her outline like clouds to the light You may be lucky enough to see reruns of sweet dreamsThrough groggy eyes rich with sleepAnd something maybe more peaceful. If you are early to…
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Nashville
by Julia Nahley, Art Staff Hey guys! My name is Julia Nahley and I am a senior double majoring in Studio Arts and Economics at VU. I am part of the art staff at TVR and have loved being involved in such a creative group of people that can celebrate the work of students passionate…
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4 Love Stories, Summer 2020
by Eric Ponce, Prose Staff, Class of 2022 Rapture David Estrella. Mexican-Jewish, really wonderful cultural intersection, with the different attitudes of both peoples—mix of confused infatuation with and crippling fear of death, a veiny, gimcrack pride, a litany of complexes, not all of them detrimental to his well-being and general success, a demonstratively suppressed sexuality—and…
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Faces Lined with Love
By Amber Yun, Layout Editor They say that all it takes to fall in love is to look into someone’s eyes for four minutes straight. I’m not much of a romantic, but I’ve tried Dr. Aran’s fast track to love on a few different occasions. Whether it was to satiate my cynical curiosity or actually…
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Marlon Brando
by Alexander Mills, Class of 2023 My grandfather once took me to see Elia Kazan’s A Street Car Named Desire He was a Hercules in stature and a Hollywood stunt-man in profession It was at the local Birmingham cinema We sat four rows from the back and he devastated two large boxes of milk dudsin under forty seconds …
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